Word: fame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people are dancing. They seem a little young, but they're hip, undulating across the floor. Like the horns that solo, one dancer or another emerges from the group, isolated in the passing light of fame...
...possible that this week will turn out to have been Forbes' 15 minutes of fame. But that has not kept the rivalry between Forbes and Dole from taking on the quality of shadowboxing. Both Forbes campaign manager Bill Dal Col and Dole campaign manager Scott Reed were once Kemp staffers, and they have kept in touch over the years. Early on, Dal Col would routinely let Reed see the text of Forbes' ads before they ran, "but no more," he says. "Things have got too hot. They're crazed about the ads." Reed notes that Forbes was the first...
SUSIE ORBACH Di's highly public psychodrama means fresh fame for her therapist-in-waiting...
...much of athletic competition has come to be writ in mythic proportions. Sports heroes loom larger than life. A sense of god-like immortality accompanies the "thrill" of victory. The divide between life's reality and the fantasy of Elysian fields is being trampled by the universalized pursuit of fame and glory through athletics...
...Diego Chargers, there were plenty of takers. But Jeffrey Lange claims he has been unfairly singled out. He says he was aiming at other fans, not the field. Worse, since his arrest for disorderly conduct, he has lost his job and had snowballs lobbed at him by strangers. Ah, fame...